Beginner! Reading text files

[umark]

Hi all,

I am a novice at flash. I have just started to use flash mx 2004 in the last 2 weeks and have come across a problem.
I have a VB script generating a text file containing over 100 lines of information. Can some one please help me to get Flash to read this text file on the press of a button, and display the contents in a new frame.
Also is it possible to select only certain lines from this text file to display?

Thanks

Umar

[strille]

There are two ways to load a text file into a flash movie:
1. Plain text files using loadVariables, or the newer LoadVars. The text file must have the format:

varName=bla bla bla&varName2=some more text&

2. Load an xml file. This is a bit more complicated since you need to parse the document. You create an XML object in Flash using new XML(), then you load a file into the object, and last parse it.

You can read more about LoadVars and XML in the Flash help. There are also lots of tutorials on the subject.

[umark]

Thanks for the reply,

Is there any way to open the text file on the click of a button, or just read the whole text file without the need to modify it.
The text file is generated by a VB script and i cannot modify it.

thanks


umarK